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RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Milton, Delaware. Gerald, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re up next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you today, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Excellent to outstanding, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s the best way to be. I want to comment on something you talked about earlier in your show, and it\u2019s just simply this. With Obama putting all the wealthy and all the people with all the great monies in his crosshairs, doesn\u2019t he think about the backlash and the repercussions and everything that\u2019s going to come as a result of that? I mean, these people have got millions of dollars to spend. Does he expect them not to spend it against him and the folly of the people who advise him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you have to understand what he\u2019s doing here. He\u2019s doing two things. He is relying on the fact that most people don\u2019t earn a quarter of a million dollars or more, and in a time of recession he is hoping to capitalize on an emotion of hatred that they have for the people who make that much. Obama is hoping that he\u2019ll get kudos for getting even with these people. He\u2019s not gonna make anybody\u2019s life any better who makes less than $250 a year. He just wants them to be happy that people who have more than they are are getting screwed. The second thing — and this is more important, Gerald — is he is redistributing wealth. It is destroying it for the express purpose of redistributing it to his buddies, primarily the unions — government and teacher unions, public sector unions — and minorities. He\u2019s returning the wealth of the nation to its, quote, unquote, ‘rightful owners.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: All that aside, I only have one statement to that. I don\u2019t see near that amount of money per year as my income. But I see that if these people of wealth don\u2019t do something about him, we are in trouble. I know I\u2019m going to do whatever I can as modestly as I can, because this man needs to get out of the way. He\u2019s killing this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I totally agree. I totally agree. Let me tell you something about the wealthy, though. They\u2019re not going to complain. They will not complain. I once watched This Week with Brinkley when Brinkley hosted it. It was back in the early, mid-nineties. Andy Grove of Intel was on when Bill Clinton had just announced a limit on corporate salaries and their deductibility as a business expense of $1 million. They asked Andy Grove if he thought this was the right policy. He said, ‘I\u2019m not going to sit here and complain about the amount of money I make and I don\u2019t want to get into these social concerns over that. I\u2019d love to tell you about Intel and what we\u2019re doing.\u2019 They don\u2019t want to talk about it because these people that are wealthy do not want to be seen as complaining. They think that will only fuel the fire to raise their taxes. Now, they might work in other ways quietly to try to defeat it and so forth, but look: I guarantee you that the vast majority of them, other than those in Hollywood, have the same attitude about this that you do, and they\u2019re going to be working hard to find ways around the new tax increases, whatever they are. <\/p>\n

There are going to be more to come but this is going to come from ‘sunsetting\u2019 the Bush tax cuts, which is a tax increase. Pelosi says it\u2019s not, but it is a tax increase if your top marginal rate is going to go from 36% to 39%, which is big. As I say, when you couple this with state taxes and Medicare tax increases and so forth, you\u2019re going to be over — in some states over — 50% of your income. Over 50% of your gross is going to be taxed. The wealthy complain about it to themselves, but I can\u2019t see \u2019em complaining about what\u2019s going to happen to them. I can see them maybe saying, ‘This is going to destroy the economy. This is going to hurt my business. I\u2019m never going to be able to hire people. We\u2019re not going to be able to grow our business.\u2019 They might do it that way, but they\u2019re not going to complain about the impact on them because nobody\u2019s going to have any sympathy for them — and, as I say: If they do complain, it\u2019s just gonna spur other people to support raising taxes on them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, one thing about this $250,000. I made a bit of a mistake. Ladies and gentlemen, $250,000 is not wealthy. I know that for you families, $250,000, you\u2019re not wealthy. But Obama and the Democrats have always called those kind of people ‘wealthy,\u2019 and they will. At $250,000 for a family of four, they will complain about their taxes going up. But I do think, depending on how much coverage their complaints get, it will still spur people who don\u2019t make that kind of money, ‘Oh, really? You\u2019re complaining? I\u2019m outta work and you\u2019re complaining about a tax increase?\u2019 They gotta be very careful about how this goes. But yeah, a lot of small businesses are in this category of $250,000, and I think the caller wanted them to organize and do something. A lot of people want somebody else to do something. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Virginia in High Rolls, New Mexico. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. I\u2019m so honored to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to mention first, I called to talk about the redistribution of wealth and how I think it\u2019s going on already. But I was going to mention to you that I\u2019m also a meteorologist and I don\u2019t believe in global warming.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man-made global warming? Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, exactly. I\u2019ve done a little looking into it, and I\u2019m thinking perhaps some minor fluctuations in the magnetic field could cause a little bit of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere, but man-made? No way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And if anybody ever asks you, say, ‘What ended the ice age? Global warming and there were no people there.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Something had to end it. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. That was global warming. Maybe it was man\u2019s first experiments with fire. I\u2019m not sure. Anyway, just kind of a statement. I found something out. This redistribution of wealth — and I\u2019m terribly nervous. I apologize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand. I\u2019ve been where you are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was talking to someone who was filing their taxes, a young couple, and he makes about $15,000 a year. You know, it\u2019s not much. But they have two children, right? I asked him how much he paid in his income tax, and he said $143. I said, ‘How much are you getting back?\u2019 And he said $7,000, and I was like, what? ‘Well, there\u2019s earned income credit.\u2019 They have two children. They get Medicaid. They get food stamps. They get WIC — which is about I think like milk and cheese and things like that for the kids. So I added it up, and I kind of came out with a rough estimate of about anywhere between $32,000 and $35,000 this couple makes — and I don\u2019t have that much disposable income. I just find it shocking. I\u2019m shocked because it\u2019s already happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is already happening, and your example is the exact intention that Obama has. That couple is not gonna object to any policy. That couple\u2019s not gonna object to any increase in taxes. They\u2019re gonna favor increase in taxes because they know they\u2019re going to get the money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just floored. I have lumps on my head from banging it against the wall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I got into big trouble on April 1st of 1989 when I suggested that the poor start paying their fair share of taxes. I caught all kinds of hell for that. But, seriously, this is Obama\u2019s intention. He wants more and more people to be in that category that you just described.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I have not, in the last ten years, ever gotten a return — anything back of anything I\u2019ve paid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s actually good, because if you had, that just means they\u2019re keeping your money for a year with no interest.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. But I\u2019m actually thinking of doing less work — and I hate that thought, less work — because I\u2019m so worried about the tax increases that are coming.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Less work and you get yourself in that couple\u2019s situation, have an income of $15,000 a year and have a disposable income of $32,000.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Well, I appreciate you taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, have you ever tasted government cheese and milk and butter?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, actually the cheese is pretty good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember when I was a kid — I don\u2019t know how this happened — my dad brought home some government butter, butter that was for welfare recipients. And it was the best butter I\u2019d ever tasted. It wasn\u2019t even close. It was astounding to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When we were eating margarine they\u2019re eating butter? Is that what you\u2019re trying to say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it was better than real butter. Their butter was better than what you got at the store.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was in big, round tins, not in sticks. Now, my dad did a lot to educate me on what this was really all about in the welfare community, the welfare world and so forth. And the milk, too. I don\u2019t know where he got it because we were not on welfare. I think one of the farmers that was involved in producing it gave it to him. And he made a point, ‘This is better than what you can get at the store, son. Government just is better.\u2019 They had whatever their standard requirements are. I don\u2019t know, but he made that point. Look, Virginia, you did great. I couldn\u2019t even tell you were nervous. I\u2019m glad you called. Thank you so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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